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Subject:		Re: Bethesda
Name:		T Meirion Hughes
Date Posted:		Mar 20, 08 - 3:24 PM
Email:		tmhughes@Cofis.co.uk
Message:		Dear Ms. Evans, Although I am not very conversant with Bethesda, fortunately a friend of mine Mr. J. Elwyn Hughes is a native of the village and a well known Welsh language author, having written books on Caradoc Pritchard, National Poet, and novelist and the most illustrious son of Bethesda. 1) With regard to Bontuchaf, he tells me that this is an area of Bethesda and consists of 2 streets, but that there was no hospital/Sick house there. He reckoned that the person or persons who died there had a relative living in the street and were nursed there up to the time of death. 2) Percival Arms (sic). Although he was not sure of its location he was of the opinion that it was either in the High Street or very near to it. He gave me these particilars of the licensees from the Street Directories as follows: 1840 J. Jones; 1844 J. Jones; 1850 T. Jones: 1856 Jane Jones; 1868 Richard Horn. 3) The location of the Penrhyn Quarry Hospital is on the right hand side of the road leading up to the Quarry and is now a ruin. (Unlike the Dinorwig Quarry Hospital which is now a Museum on the bank of Llanberis Lake.) Regards, T Meirion Hughes
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Re: Re: Bethesda by Conni Evans · Mar 20, 08 - 5:05 PM

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